IT'S a funny old world. After 50 years of Labour decimating our inner cities and towns by demolishing row upon row of terraced houses and replacing them with dysfunctional tower blocks and sink estates, which they are trying to rid themselves of at a phenomenal rate, a chink of light is now breaking through this obsessive failure of Labour's social housing policy.

For no other than New Labour's illustrious deputy Prime Minister 'Two Jags' John Prescott is now proposing that terraced property should once more be built and sees it as the salvation of housing and that closer communities will arise and solve a lot of petty crime.

This must be one of the biggest U-turns of all time in political dogma.

WALT MEADOWS,Whalley New Road, Blackburn.

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